Did you like "Space Above and the Beyond" back in the 90's?

[Jayson1]

Here is a show that I think has been mostly forgotten even though I felt it might have been one of the better shows of that time. It's basically "Battlestar Galatica" before Ron Moore actually made the concept a bigger success. I especially liked the clone characters who were used to explore issue's like racism. They even did a great episode with nobody speaking which Joss Whedon even admited was something that inspired him to do the "Buffy" episode called "Hush."

Jason

 

[USS Firefly]

I loved that show!
I still wait for the DVD release, the same with Third watch ( I mean both shows are off the air for more than 15 years!!!)

 

[Jayson1]

I loved that show!
I still wait for the DVD release, the same with Third watch ( I mean both shows are off the air for more than 15 years!!!)

Actually it is already out on DVD because I owned them. Only downside was that there wasn't any DVD extra's.

Jason

 

[Forbin]

I loved it then, and I love it now, and yes, I have it on DVD.

The first few episodes turned me off for reasons I can't remember, so I stopped watching. I tried it again mid-season and discovered it had become the best damn military SF show ever. The makers of Nu-BSG used it as inspiration. I still pop it in for a rewatch now and then, especially the Angriest Angel 2-parter with Chiggy VonRichtofen.

 

[Mudd]

Nah. It was a snoozer.

 

[Admiral2]

It was teh AWESOME!

I watched the whole season religiously when it was first run, on a crappy TV where channel 5 always had fuzz and snow on it (didn't have cable back then.) I have the DVD as well.

Loved that show.

 

[Mage]

I LOVED S:AAB. I really need to see if I can find it on dvd somewhere.

 

[Galileo7]

The complete series DVD set has been out for years. I have seen it in the past for as low as twenty dollars.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

There are a few used dvd sets at Amazon.com for around $20-$30.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I got it for $20. Canadian. New. Pretty quickly after it came out.

Great sci-fi war show, which was really a pretty thinly-disguised more typical war drama (of the Vietnam war type, like Tour of Duty or China Beach) with sci-fi stuff dumped in. The thing I liked the least was the main character and his motivations, but pretty much everyone else was awesome and their ensemble shows were overall pretty good.

And the sci-fi tech was awesome. Loved them Hammerheads and their capital ships!

Mark

 

[Admiral2]

I got it for $20. Canadian. New. Pretty quickly after it came out.

Great sci-fi war show, which was really a pretty thinly-disguised more typical war drama (of the Vietnam war type, like Tour of Duty or China Beach) with sci-fi stuff dumped in. The thing I liked the least was the main character and his motivations, but pretty much everyone else was awesome and their ensemble shows were overall pretty good.

And the sci-fi tech was awesome. Loved them Hammerheads and their capital ships!

Mark

Actually, you picked the wrong war there. The creators said they formed the show to honor their grandfathers, who were WW2 vets. The whole series is basically the Pacific War IN SPACE!

 

[USS Firefly]

Actually it is already out on DVD because I owned them. Only downside was that there wasn't any DVD extra's.

I am still hoping that SAAB will come with Dutch subtitles
And from Third Watch is only season 1&2 on DVD

 

[feek61]

Yes, enjoyed it while it was on TV but have not seen it since. Hopefully it is as good as I remember it!

 

[Solariabsg25]

Still love S:AAB today. Was a shame never got to the 2nd Season, there were a few threads started regarding the background of the Chigs. I believe it was the usual 20th Centruy Fox behind-the-scenes shenanigans.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Loved it. Great show, and I was bummed when it was canx'd. The two-parter with Chiggy V.R. is still my favorite part of the series.

 

[gblews]

Loved the show. I watched the final episode on Fox back in the days when the internet wasn't as pervasive as it is now. I had no idea I was at the time, that I was watching the series finale. At the end of the episode, I naively thought, 'damn, looks like they're all going to die'.

Afterward, I went on the 'net and got the bad news. I sent an email to Fox asking for confirmation of cancellation. They actually replied with a very nice email letting me know that they were sorry, but the show had been ended and hoped that I had enjoyed it. That was a surprise.

 

[Forbin]

Loved it. Great show, and I was bummed when it was canx'd. The two-parter with Chiggy V.R. is still my favorite part of the series.

The one where they capture a Chig bomber and go on a maybe-suicide mission to nuke a Chig base - when the Col reads that classic (real life) letter-home from a kamikaze pilot... chills, man.

 

[Reverend]

Saw a bit of it way back when. Didn't do a thing for me.
Cheap looking, highly derivative style. No real memorable characters. Oh and I'm sorry for the people that dig this kind of thing, but the idea of ground-pounder marine types who are also top gun fighter pilots just seemed ludicrous, even in the context of a pulpy military space adventure setting.
It was like the whole show was bad fan fiction of some other much better military sci-fi show.

 

[Admiral2]

Oh and I'm sorry for the people that dig this kind of thing, but the idea of ground-pounder marine types who are also top gun fighter pilots just seemed ludicrous, even in the context of a pulpy military space adventure setting.

Obviously it seemed ridiculous, because it's not a realistic military set-up. It was entirely a "we got five actors gotta be in every episode no matter where the battle is" situation. Once you realize that, you don't mind as much.

 

[Reverend]

Obviously it seemed ridiculous, because it's not a realistic military set-up. It was entirely a "we got five actors gotta be in every episode no matter where the battle is" situation. Once you realize that, you don't mind as much.

Oh I realised it right off the bat. It didn't help.
What you do instead in that scenario is make two of those characters pilots and the others commandos/spec-force types--Note: *not* marine jarheads. That archetype is just incompatible with fighter jocks. (Indeed if I recall correctly, one of them was damn near illiterate, which for a pilot is so far beyond dumb it's not even funny!)

That way you can have characters with unique traits, expertise, and roles within a given plot. Not a bunch of bland, interchangeable cardboard cut-outs.

Anyway, so long as we're talking short lived mid-to-late 90's sci-fi, 'Earth 2' was way better. It had 100% more Clancy Brown AND Tim Curry. QED.